eyeeye THE SUNDAY EXPRESSMAGAZINE AWRITER’S LUCKNOW,LATECITY REVOLT DECEMBER6,2020 Acampaign of hate brought 16PAGES,`5.00 Perumal Murugan, SHareesh to mainstream attention DAILYFROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM PAGES 13, 14,15 Govt seeks OFFER TO AMEND LAWS TURNED DOWN Cleared in UK, Pfizer foot in to first in India to apply make IIMs Farmershardenstance,Govtweighs more easily for emergency use options,Housesessionnotruledout an application on December 4to PAYALBANERJEE the DCGI seeking emergency use fall in line NEWDELHI,DECEMBER5 authorisation (EUA) forits Covid- As unionsinsist 19 vaccine," asource said. "The Education Ministry PFIZER INDIA has becomethe firm has submitted the EUAap- on repeal of laws, seekspowers to firstpharmaceutical firm to seek plication in Form CT-18for grant Govt says will from the Drugs Controller of permission to importand checkBoardonIIM General of India (DCGI)emer- market Pfizer-BioNTech'sCovid- getbackwith gency use authorisation forits 19 mRNAvaccine BNT162b2 in Act‘violations’ Covid-19vaccine in the country, the country,"the source said, cit- proposal on Dec 9 afterits parent companysecured ing the application. suchclearance in the UK and VKPaul, who chairs the RITIKACHOPRA Bahrain. high-levelNational Expert NEWDELHI,DECEMBER5 HARIKISHANSHARMA In itsapplication to thedrug Group on Vaccine &LIZMATHEW regulator,Pfizer has soughtper- Administration, had earlier IN WHATmarksasignificant re- NEWDELHI,DECEMBER5 missiontoimportthe vaccine for spelledout India’s strategy with versal of itsearlier stance, the sale and distribution in the coun- respect to candidates likePfizer Government is exploring op- THE CENTRAL government try, besides waiver of clinical tri- and Moderna whichhaveshown tions that could, in effect, erode found itself hemmedinon als on Indian population in ac- positive resultsinPhase III the autonomyofthe Indian Saturday withfarmer unions cordance with the special abroad but arenot being tested InstitutesofManagement (IIMs). once again taking amaximalist provisions under the NewDrugs here. “Weknowthat doses of Almostthreeyearsaftergrant- position demanding arepeal of and Clinical TrialsRules, 2019,of- this vaccine(Pfizer) will notbe ing autonomytothe 20 premier all three farm laws. ficial sources said. available in hugequantities...If businessschoolsundertheIIMAct, To resolve thestand-off,an "Pfizer India has submitted CONTINUEDONPAGE2 theMinistryofEducation(MoE)is option to convene aspecial consideringaproposalempower- Parliament session is being con- ing the Government to initiatean sidered,asenior government Representativesoffarmer unionsbroughttheir ownfood forthe meeting at Vigyan Bhawan, in NewDelhionSaturday. ANI inquiryagainstthe Boardof source told TheIndianExpress.“It SUNDAY STORY Governors (BoG) of an instituteif is notruledout, but no decision it’s ostensiblyfoundtobeacting, has been taken,” the source said whattheGovernmentthinks,isin to aquestion if aspecial session ROLLING OUT contravention of theAct. wasbeingconsidered. GOVTINABIND No politics, only farmissues:Ateam THE VACCINE The MoE recentlyshared a On Thursday, Leader of ■With so manyvoices Backend preparations draftexecutive orderwith the Opposition forCongress in the from 40 farmerunion monitorsthe stage, decides speakers forthe mammothexercise LawMinistrytothis effect and Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan representatives, the of inoculating lakhs has sought ameeting to discuss Chowdhurywrote to Speaker Om government finds itself in the same, The SundayExpress has Birla requesting ashort winter abind.Itarguesthatithas AMILBHATNAGAR PAGE 6 learned. If okayedbythe Law session of Parliament to address madekey concessions, NEWDELHI,DECEMBER5 Ministry, theorder will be issued “veryimportant issues” including from paritybetween under Section 38 of the IIM Act. the “ongoing farmers agitation”. mandisand private MORE THAN 500people sit Section 38 states, “If anydiffi- But sources in the Speaker's office markets, setting up a cross-legged listening to Covaxin volunteerVij culty arises in giving effect to the said the government had notyet registrationsystemfor speeches blaring out of two provisions of this Act, the Central discussedsuchapossibility. traders and giving loudspeakers fixedatopatrac- Government may, by order pub- On Saturday, talksbetween assurances on MSPbut tor, as farm leaders address them testspositive,govt says lishedinthe Official Gazette, the government and represen- farmersare insistent on a from the main stageatSinghu on makesuchprovisions notincon- tativesoffarmerunions repeal. With littleelbow the Delhi-Haryana border —the sistent with the provisions of this CONTINUEDONPAGE2 room politically,its ally focal point of their agitation. Diljit Dosanjh at the protestatSinghu border on Saturday. ANI was yet to get full dose Act, asmayappeartoittobenec- gone and the Opposition Their stand resoluteagainstthe essaryorexpedientforremoving lending itsweighttothe farm laws,and conscious of at- the difficulty.” The MoE onlyhas JAISHANKAR TO SKIP tempts to painttheiragitation as makes it to the stage, the vetting teers. Details of the speakers are CANADAMEETING protests, anyresolution athree-year windowact under seems achallenge. dictated by vested interests,the handedovertoamanagement carefullymaintained, and chits EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE this Section. That windowexpires MORE REPORTS, PAGES 5, 9 protesters arecareful of who committee, including volun- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CHANDIGARH,NEWDELHI, on January31, 2021. DECEMBER5 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 TWOWEEKSafter takingthe firstdose as partofthe trials for Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin vac- PM to layfoundation stone for new cine, Haryana HealthMinister Anil Vij, 67,announcedon Saturdaythat he washospi- Parliament building on December 10 talisedafter testing positive for Anil Vijinhospital after thecoronavirus. testingpositive on Saturday Vijwas thefirstvolunteerfor the Covaxin Phase III human tri- LIZMATHEW alsinHaryana, as partofwhich ED NEWDELHI,DECEMBER5 around 600people in the state Two-dose and over 25,000 across the vaccine PRIME MINISTER Narendra countryare enrolled—half of PLAIN E ● candidate Modi will laythe foundation them receiving aplacebo as part EX stone forthe newParliament of the"double blind"study.The buildingonDecember 10,and Union Health Ministryaswell COVAXIN IS meant to be the ceremonywill be attended as officials conducting the trials takenovertwo doses, and T-108, with thesnare-like wirecoiledaroundits neck. Express by leaders and representatives in the statesaid Vij's infection on November 20, Anil Vijre- of all parties who will be present could notbeattributedtothe ceived the firstshot(witha physicallyorvia virtual mode. vaccine, as even if he was 50% chance of it having Ranthambore camera Making this announcement amongthe volunteers who got been aplacebo). Both the at apress conference Saturday, Amodel of the newParliament building whichisestimated to cost Rs 971crore. PTI the vaccine,itwas only the first government and Bharat Speaker Om Birla said: “We of twodoses, and sufficientan- Biotech said antibodies startedthe journeyofindepend- tibodies onlydevelop afterthe were meant to develop only traps find wire noose entIndia in the old building, and building… It will notbeabuild- The building, he said, will re- terms of architecture, modernity second. twoweeksafter the second when we complete 75 years, we ing of bricksandstones,itwill be flect the country's diversity and and safety. Adiabetic, Vijrecentlyunder- dose, with the whole will have the session of both the fulfilmentofthe dreams of richart culture, and will be the “The present Parliament went asurgeryafterfracturing his process spread over 42 days. around tiger’sneck Houses in the newParliament 130crore people.” best Parliament building in CONTINUEDONPAGE2 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 day—one wasofFriday morn- DEEPMUKHERJEE ing while the other wasfromthe WORLD GOVT &POLITICS JAIPUR,DECEMBER5 night before —whichshowed Aligarhman beaten up on way to register the tiger,T-108,with awiretan- ASTATEWIDE alertagainst gled around its neck. It wasa poaching has been issuedafter matterofconcern. The field di- interfaith marriage; abductioncaselodged cameratraps in and around the rector contacted us to seekper- RanthamboreTiger Reserve cap- mission fortranquilising the comes from Aligarhand had met allegedly pretending to be a been filedfor assault forthe at- tured images of atiger with a tiger,” said Arijit Banerjee, EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE the girl, who is aminor,in Hindu,the police said. tack in the courtcomplex. We hunting snare-likewirenoose Additional Principal Chief U.S. COURT ORDERS LUCKNOW,NEWDELHI Mohali, Punjab, wherehedid “Wereceived information will investigatethe incident," SP coiledaround itsneck. Conservator of Forests(Forest REINSTATEMENT OF DECEMBER5 odd jobs. thataman had been assaulted (City,Aligarh) Abhishek said. DACA TO PROTECT Stateforestdepartment offi- Protection) and officiating Chief The twohad come to Aligarh while he wasonhis waytoreg- On Friday, Mohali police BJP TOLD CONG MLAS cialssaidthetiger,T-108,wastran- WildlifeWarden, Rajasthan. IMMIGRANTS A21-YEAR-OLD manwas as- on December 1toregistertheir isterhis marriageinAligarh came to Aligarhand took cus- quilisedandthewireremovedon Banerjee said permission saulted while on waytoregister marriageunder the Special court. We investigated and tody of Sonu and the girl. The RAJASTHAN WILL BE Saturday. Thedepartmenthasor- wassought from the National RUSSIA STARTS an interfaith